Labor and Social Reproduction

Abstract

Cheap labour, together with cheap nature, has become the foundation of global capitalism, mobilised across national boundaries in gendered and racialised regimes of extractive appropriation. Both paid and unpaid labour of women is mobilised to subsidise capitalist extraction of value. Migration of labour, leaving huge care gaps in the sending landscapes and generative of racist and gendered discourses of populist right wing politics also play into this fixing of labour markets. Global governance of labour routinely falls short of supporting labour rights in the interests of growth led discourses about the economy and overlooking the importance of social reproductive labour. This leads to double burdens of labour and depletion of individuals, households and communities. Labour resistance to this system of exploitation takes many forms – formal and informal, discursive and political mobilisation developing individual negotiations, institutional participation, and through reflexive solidarities. Feminist analyses, reframing and mobilisations have much to teach us about how to understand, negotiate and challenge the capitalist regimes of exploitation, extractivism and oppress, which this panel will address.

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